Purpose: Students will complete a seven day journal about things that they have done for people, that they don’t usually associate with, every day of the week and how they felt and how the other person reacted. This will help the students to connect more with Stargirl.
Audience: 10th grade
Genre: Journal Assignment (transmedial)
Engagement: Students will see what life was like for Stargirl and how little things people do for each other day to day can make all the difference.
Assignment: Throughout the novel Stargirl does kind things for people she doesn’t know and because she does this and acts so different and goes against the “norms” she is shunned. Although she is shunned by all the students in the school, she doesn’t stop doing acts of kindness. Complete a journal for a whole week, seven days, in which you describe an act of kindness that you have done for another person. The people you choose must be someone that you wouldn’t normally interact with. Also, talk about how it made you feel and what the other person’s reaction was. At the end of the week you will hand in your journal. The journal must be decorated as if it were a real journal that you would keep. Once all the journals have been collected, the students will participate in discussions about their experiences while completing the assignment.
Requirements:
One journal/notebook provided by the teacher
Journal must be decorated to reflect yourself
Journal must contain seven detailed entries, one for each day of the week
Any materials used to decorate the journal must be school appropriate
Insights: This assignment allows students to go outside of the “clicks” or usual social groups and get involved with others outside of that group. They are able to see how the smallest gesture can brighten someone else’s day. It allows them to draw connections between themselves and the things they do for someone else and the things that Stargirl did and the way that she felt throughout the novel when doing things for others. After the assignment students will discuss as a class the different things they have done and how it made them and the other people feel.
Challenges: A challenge that presents itself for this project is that students might not want to go outside of their social groups to find someone to do a kind thing for. I want the students to overcome stereotypes unlike the students in the novel Stargirl. Going outside their social groups also allows students to better connect to the novel. Another challenge would be keeping up with the detailed log of the things the students did for others, and the reactions from both parties.
Audience: 10th grade
Genre: Journal Assignment (transmedial)
Engagement: Students will see what life was like for Stargirl and how little things people do for each other day to day can make all the difference.
Assignment: Throughout the novel Stargirl does kind things for people she doesn’t know and because she does this and acts so different and goes against the “norms” she is shunned. Although she is shunned by all the students in the school, she doesn’t stop doing acts of kindness. Complete a journal for a whole week, seven days, in which you describe an act of kindness that you have done for another person. The people you choose must be someone that you wouldn’t normally interact with. Also, talk about how it made you feel and what the other person’s reaction was. At the end of the week you will hand in your journal. The journal must be decorated as if it were a real journal that you would keep. Once all the journals have been collected, the students will participate in discussions about their experiences while completing the assignment.
Requirements:
Insights: This assignment allows students to go outside of the “clicks” or usual social groups and get involved with others outside of that group. They are able to see how the smallest gesture can brighten someone else’s day. It allows them to draw connections between themselves and the things they do for someone else and the things that Stargirl did and the way that she felt throughout the novel when doing things for others. After the assignment students will discuss as a class the different things they have done and how it made them and the other people feel.
Challenges: A challenge that presents itself for this project is that students might not want to go outside of their social groups to find someone to do a kind thing for. I want the students to overcome stereotypes unlike the students in the novel Stargirl. Going outside their social groups also allows students to better connect to the novel. Another challenge would be keeping up with the detailed log of the things the students did for others, and the reactions from both parties.